You can watch the ceremony here.

 

The College's Dedicated Sustainability Team

The Sustainability Team (left to right):  Makenzie Jackson, Jacklyn Narducci, Deanna Kulbeth, Brenna Campbell

We are proud to be part of a project that connects the Cooper Center for Environmental Learning with student groups and sustainability initiatives across campus. Graduate student Deanna Kulbeth is in her second year of leading the Cooper Campus Outreach Team, which is a grant in its third year and is funded through the UA Green Fund .

In addition to Kulbeth, the team includes three skilled and dedicated undergraduate students. "We are all passionate about sharing concepts and practices of sustainability with others and connecting UA students with the environment," says Kulbeth. "This semester we have been more successful than ever before in building partnerships and incorporating sustainability education into all of our on-campus events and Cooper Center events. We have learned to meet people where they are and to make sure our events always lead to another one. In fact, our themed Sunset Hike and Yoga events out at the Cooper Center really blossomed out of our partnership with Campus Recreation Outdoor Adventures so that we have three more of these awesome events in the works for next semester!"

	Kulbeth in a yoga move called the Dancer Stretch

The team also is working on campaigns to reduce single-use plastic straw usage, improve composting resources within the Student Union, and renew signage so people will put their compostable food containers and straws in the proper bins. Their work supports a more sustainable Greek Life organization by promoting sustainable dinners and a series of educational events concerning the fast fashion industry (with the help of community organization Fed by Threads).

"We are looking forward to a new partnership with Cats After Dark, which will help students develop closer relationships with the environment and enjoy fulfilling memories of their time here at the UA through a variety of fun activities and environmental associations. As we go about our work, we find so much joy in serving our fellow students and in joining the story of sustainable growth on a university campus," Kulbeth adds.

 

Two College of Education Graduates Part of Landmark National Study

Bill Enriquez, 74, flips through old photographs and high school yearbooks at his west-side home. Enriquez, a 1963 graduate of Douglas High School, has participated in the Project Talent study since his high school days.  Photo by Mike Christy of the Arizona Daily Star

Two of our graduates were featured in this  Arizona Daily Star article about a landmark study called Project Talent.

The original study "would track them from their youthful days to their retirement years and measure aptitudes and abilities, interests, personality traits, cognition, health, home life and aspirations for the future."

Sidonia "Lisa" Glenn, now 75, and Bill Enriquez, now 74, are among the 440,000 high school students nationwide who began the tests in 1960. Glenn graduated from the College of Education in 1965 and Enriquez graduated from the College of Education in 1967. Last month, researchers connected with 22,500 original participants, including Glenn and Enriquez, about a follow-up study, called the Aging Study, that "will have a special focus on memory and cognitive health in an effort to develop evidence-based policies to combat the looming Alzheimer's crisis. Researchers expect to reveal the findings in the fall of 2019. They hope to understand the health disparities between minorities and whites, and to examine the long-term effects of attending racially segregated versus integrated schools," said Sabine Horner, Project Talent spokeswoman.